<p>OP, when I googled the topic, I saw a CC thread from 2008 in which you asked the same question. Has anything changed?</p>
<p>LOL, that is funny, pg</p>
<p>I was thinking about the security aspect of this. I don’t think it would matter if the leg you drop is on another plane. You wouldn’t have checked baggage, and you’d never check in to board. They’d call your name and leave without you.</p>
<p>But if it’s the same plane, then I wonder–would they be concerned that you got off, but left your carry-on baggage on the plane? Would they have to search the plane?</p>
<p>Don’t know - all the times I’ve done this, it’s involved a change of planes.</p>
<p>Certainly every single domestic flight I’ve been on in the past few years (which is a lot!!), there are names called at the gate, the person isn’t there, the seat is lost and they open up a seat for the stand-bys. And they aren’t searching planes. It seems to be a standard of airline travel, that people don’t show up to flights.</p>
<p>To build … when I’ve been on planes where there was a stop and people were allowed to leave the plane, they didn’t seem overly concerned with making sure everyone came back on board and was accounted for when the next leg started. If you got off the plane and you missed whatever call to get back on the plane, too bad so sad. So I highly doubt they are tracking non-returners on the same plane and checking for their carry-ons being left behind, much less stopping the plane from taking off until all were accounted for.</p>
<p>I’m probably one of those passengers that prompted airlines to change their policies on this. Fifteen years ago airlines would let you reboard at the interim airport, even if you had a round trip ticket. In those days a R/T to Atlanta could be four times the price of a R/T ticket to Jacksonville, stopping in Atlanta. And I needed to go to Atlanta a lot. Sorry everyone …</p>
<p>If your itinerary is A-B-C then C-B-A, and you blow off one of the first 3 flights, I get why they cancel the rest of the journey. (I think it’s stupid, but whatever, I get it.) But if you’re just ditching your B-A final leg, I really don’t see the problem with it and I think it’s about as low-risk of a situation as you can have. The airlines are NOT going to go after you for this.</p>
<p>On international flights in particular, the way US customs is set up, US citizens have to go through customs and claim their bags on their first stop in the US, regardless of whether it’s their final destination. What prevents someone from walking out the door after clearing customs and getting the bag? Nothing.</p>
<p>Pg…I forgot I asked the same question in the past 
We must have not followed that scenario back then, but wondered what would happen. Ticket is bought now, so I’ll let you know. It is only the last leg of the flight, and if for some reason the plane is rerouted with a different stop-over, the final destination city is only about 2+ hours away, so we could still pick them up with a little inconvenience.</p>
<p>I did this recently because of bad weather. I had carrying on bag and just got off one destination. The airline didn’t even check to see if my final destination was what I claimed. I just got sick of the waiting and exited earlier.</p>